unitedhealthcare. >> chris: as we said, house speaker boehner's office called us to say he wanted to come on fox news sunday to tell his side of the story. he says the president wants to ram rod a deal through, not work out a compromise, and, boehner might, he suggests, be willing to go over the cliff. >> chris: speaker boehner, welcome back to fox news sunday. >> good to be with you. >> chris: how would you characterize the deal the treasury secretary offered you on behalf of the president this week. >> a nonserious proposal, the president asked for $1.6 trillion worth of new revenue over ten years, twice as much as he has been asking for in public. he has stimulus spending in here that exceeded the amount of new cuts that he was willing to consider. it was not a serious offer. >> chris: you you are saying there is more spending than spending cuts? >> that's correct. they outlined, they would be willing to talk about $400 billion worth of cuts over ten years. but, at the end of the year, they wanted to extend unemployment benefits, they wanted a new stimulus program, for infrastruct